FAN KEI v. THE QUEEN
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CACC000213/1969
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 213 OF 1969
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| BETWEEN | ||
| FAN KEI | Appellant | |
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| THE QUEEN | Respondent |
Coram: Huggins, J.
Date of Judgment: 28 April 1969
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JUDGMENT
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Huggins, J:
1. The appellant appeals against a sentence of 15 months' imprisonment passed upon him by the learned magistrate for larceny from the person. He was seen following a number of ladies in the street and finally was seen to snatch a handbag from one of them. After a chase he was arrested. He has six previous convictions, three of them relating to offences of dishonesty and two relating to dangerous drugs. The last conviction was for membership of a Triad Society and professing to be an office bearer of an unlawful society. For these triad offences he was sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment and placed on two years' police supervision in May of last year. Then he was sentenced to three months imprisonment for larceny and this offence was committed on the 5th of February, 1969, when he has not been long out of prison.
2. The appellant says that he committed the larceny offences because of his drug addiction and assures me that he has been cured of his addiction since February. He alleges that his sister is to be married in China in August and asks for leniency so that he may attend the wedding.
3. Having regard to the appellant's record I see no reason to interfere with the sentence imposed by the learned magistrate and the appeal is dismissed.
28th April, 1969.